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(No Model.)

T. G. PROUTY.

VDOOR HANGER.

Patented Aug. 3,1897.

WITNESSES: WW \Z/W Q rpW'W UNITED STATES PATENT Orricn.

THEODORE C. PROUTY, OF MIDLAND, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO THE T. C. PROUTY COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

DOOR-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 587,492, dated August 3, 1897.

Application filed March 11, 1896. Serial No. 582,707. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, THEODORE O. PROUTY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Midland, in the county of Midland and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door-Hangers; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being'had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to door-hangers, and is an improvement on the class of hangers and tracks used in connection with sliding doors; and it consists in the track, hanger, method of adjustment, and in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the parts as described and shown.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line Y Y of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the ball-bearing hanger-wheel. Fig. 4 is a perspective of the track supporting the plate 6. Fig. 5 is a perspective of the door attachment and adjusting-key.

In the drawings, 1 is a plate of metal forming the center of the track for the wheels, 2 2 being the track, and consists of two pieces of wood or other material securely fastened to the lower part of the plate 1.

3 3 are corresponding pieces fastened to the upper part of the plate. These pieces 3 3 are wider than the pieces 2 2 and serve in part to form a cover or hood for the hanger-wheel and track and are also for the purpose of giving more rigidity to the track.

At the end of the track is secured a plate 4:, having a central screw-threaded hole adapted to receive the threaded bolt 5, having a headed end adapted to slide into the slot 6 in the supporting-plate 6, secured to the framework; This plate 6, as will be seen in Fig. 4, is of peculiar construction, having a central portion 6, bent downward and provided with a slot 6, heretofore mentioned. This slot receives the head of the bolt 5 after the bolt has been adjusted to the proper length in the plate 4:, and thereby supports an end of the track.

The other end of the track isprovided with a laterally-extending lug 2, receiving the threaded bolt 7, extending upward and adapted to engage the threaded hole of the plate 8, secured to the framework. It is obvious that by turning this threaded bolt 7 the track may be adjusted as desired.

The hangerwheel is constructed as follows: Two disks 13 and 14 cut from the sheet metal and pressed outward at their centers and secured together, forming between them a coneshaped bearing for the balls '15. To these disks are secured fibrous material 11 and 12, 11 forming the flange of the wheel. This ma terial may be of rubber, canvas, wood, woodpulp, or other fibrous material, the fibrous material 12 formingthe tread of the wheel and is of the diameter of the disks 13 and 14.

16 is a journal of the wheel having a bearing in one arm of the U-shaped plate 10 and having within the wheel the concave cut-away portion 18, forming the track for the balls 15. As shown in Fig. 2, I employ two of these wheels in my device, one upon each side of the plate 1 and traveling on the tracks 2,Which, as previously stated, are of wood, thereby forming, in connection with the fibrous material of the wheel, a noiseless track and tread for the hanger. These wheels are journaled, as previously mentioned, in each arm of the U-shaped plate 10, extending downward, the two arms riveted together underneath the track, thereby forming the U shaped hangerframe, and are movably secured to the adjusting-plates 20and 21 by the connectingbolts 24 and 24:. These plates 20 and 21 are made from sheet metal and have a foot 25 pressed upon each adapted to enter and move along'in the grooves 26, formed by turning over the edges of the plate 26, which is secured to the top of the door.

Just above the foot of each plate on the insidethereof is secured an eyelet 20 and 21, through which passes the threaded bolt 30. The eyelet 21 is threaded and adapted to engage the threads on the bolt 30. The upper portions of these plates are provided with two oblique slots 22 and 23, respectively, the slot in each plate extending directly opposite to the slots in the other plate, but are adapted to be connected by the bolts 24 and 24, which connect these adjusting-plates to the hanger 10--viz., the inner slot of the plate 20 is con- ICO become loose or out of adjustment.

nected by the bolt 24: to the outer slot of the plate 21 and the inner slot of the plate 21 connected by the bolt 2 t to the outer slot of the plate 20. These bolts 2i and 24 are smaller than the slots, so that the plates can be moved one upon the other, which I do by means of the bolt 30. To the end of the bolt 30 I pivot what I term a key 32, and by means of this key I turn the bolt. It is obvious that by turning this bolt 30 the hanger may be adjusted as desiredviz., turning it in one direction raising the end of the door and in the other direction lowering the door. The key attachment 32 I provide and connect in order to make it easier and more convenient to adjust the mechanism instead of having to get a wrench or screw-driver for that purpose, but when the mechanism is once adjusted satisfactorily I lock the key attachment so that the mechanism cannot of itself This key attachment is made of two pieces of metal secured together, one end secured to the threaded bolt 30 by the pivot 31, as described, the other ends being separate but In the end of the door-plate 26 I provide means for receiving the ends of the key and holding it until removed by the hand.

This

' means consists of a slot 27, having its inner end enlarged, as at 28, and into the slot 27 I I insert the end of the key by pressing the ends together and pushing the key along the slot until the enlarged portion 28 is reached. Releasing the ends allows the lugs 33 to engage the plate 26 underneath the slot and firmly hold the key therein, from which it can be extracted only by again pressing the ends together and pulling it out through the 3 narrow portion 27.

As previously mentioned, the feet 25 of the 1 ing the runway for the wheels are provided with a short removable section at the end of the track over the door-opening, the ends of said section being cut diagonallyand retained in place by two screws in the same manner as is now common in the application of double 1 the hanger-frame through the slots will move wood track.

I do not desire to confine myself to any particular form of construction of the parts described, and therefore any change may be made that comes within ordinary mechanical skill without departing from the principle of my invention.

It may be further observed that all the parts hereinbefore described can be made, and I do make them, entirely from sheet metal of the proper thickness in order to be strong and durable. V

The hanger and adjustable plates and 21 and bed-piece 26, key 32, plate 6, and the disks and wheel I make entirely of sheet metal pressed and cut in the proper form. The only castings used are the plates 4 and S and the wheel-journal, which is of steel.

It will thus be seen that my entire doorhanger is easy of construction, light, strong, and durable.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a ball-bearing wheel for a door-hanger, the combination with two disks of sheet metal placed together and having their centers pressed outward, forming a cone-shaped hearing for the balls, and the balls running in the cone-shaped bearing and in a concave groove in the wheel-journal, and the wheel-journal held in the hanger-frame, of a broad ring of fibrous material secured upon one side of the wheel thus formed, and forming with the circumference of the disk the tread ot' the wheel,

of a larger and narrower ring of fibrous anaterial secured to the opposite side of the wheel and forming the flange of the wheel, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a door-hanger, the means of adjustment described comprising two adjustingplates secured by bolts to the hanger-frame, the plates provided with oblique parallel slots, the slots in one plate extending in the opposite direction to the slots in the other, the bolts connecting the hanger-frame to the plates passing through a slot of each plate whereby as the plates are moved in opposite directions the said bolts will move up or down through the slots and thereby lower or raise the plates along the hanger frame, substantially as specified.

In a door-hanger, the combination with two adjusting-plates adapted to engage and travel in grooves in a base-plate secured to the top of a door, and the base-plate, two oblique slots in each adj listing-plate, the slots in each plate parallel and extending in opposite directions to the slots in the other plate, and a bolt passing through the slots when secured to the hanger-frame, eyelets in the base of the adj listing-plates, one in each, one of the eyelets threaded, of a horizontal threaded bolt adapted to engage the eyelets in the base of the adjusting-plates and move them one upon the other as the bolt is turned, whereby the bolts connecting the adjusting-plates to up or down the slots and thereby lower or raise the door to which the base-plate is secured, substantially as described.

4. In a door-hanger, the combination with a base-plate secured to the top of a door, two adjustable plates movably secured to a hanger-frame and engaging and traveling in the base-plate, of a threaded bolt engaging a threaded eyelet secured to one of the plates and passing through and carrying an eyelet secured to another plate, whereby the plates may be moved one upon the other and in the base-plate by the turning of the threaded bolt, I

a key for turning the bolt secured to the outer end of the bolt, lugs on the end of the key and a slot in the base-plate for receiving the lugs IO when the hanger has been adjusted, thereby locking the same, substantially as described. In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

THEODORE O. PROUTY. Witnesses:

THOMAS J. SEcoR, WM. D. GORDON. 

